Lens

The spoil heaps, mountains made up with residues of coal are, with the rests
and the mining cottages, the last visible witnesses of this time during which
a vast community of Polish immigrants, famous for their heat with work, arrived
in France.

The Polish House : “Maison de la Polojnia” in Hénin-Beaumont
maintains this history.

Nowadays, the town of Lens is especially known for its famous football team:
the “Blood and Gold”. This name has been chosen because of the colours
of their shirt but also because of their play which is very famous in the county.
The football of the Racing Club of Lens is almost a religion.

Another source of pride: The Louvre-Lens, museum which will be inaugurated
in 2009 and which will offer on 5000m ² one of the largest collections
of works of art of the famous Parisian museum, developed by the architectural
audacity of Japanese agency SANAA.